Brainwaves of Sken

I had a great thanksgiving with mom. We watched Ice Age 2, and ate fabulously, and after awhile I rolled myself out the door and to K.T.’s sister Carrie’s place, where I participated in much of the conversation, donated a toy to the cause of 8 screaming children :), and watched V for Vendetta again with s subdued set of parents and K.T. Before leaving, we got into a big and fun discussion about the ramifications of modern society’s similarities to V’s world, and it was great. :)

Now, I’m going to eat a huge plate of stuffing while I wait for Ben to come over and leave the toilet seat up use my shower.

NO SHOPPING FOR ME TODAY. And that’s final!

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Since the 16th, I’ve posted 3 times. Guess I haven’t had a whole lot to say that I haven’t said to people individually. I know, me, not talkative. The world will end.

I popped in the Matrix for the first time in quite awhile. It’s such a fun movie, considering the dialogue is so. totally. bad. Hugo Weaving and Laurence Fishburne are definitely the acting stars, and the betrayal dude doesn’t do bad either (he’s rather well known, but his name escapes me).

I find myself wishing the blonde woman had lasted long enough for me to actually get a feel for her character. It’s annoying, having someone in a team who has no definition. She doesn’t even really have any speaking parts on the ship.

Unrelatedly, I’m now off to see mum and eat fabulous amounts of turkey, stuffing (she has the bestest, moistest sausage stuffing ever), tatos, etc etc. K.T. is probably stopping by after her own family meal, which is teh awesome.

I’m missing all those of my family that I don’t get to see today. Heather, Melinda, Lucy, Autumn, Dave, Debra, Kat, Carrie, Cheryl, Amy … shit, I could go on all day, and miss the feast! I miss all you guys. I might throw another birthday party in January, just as an excuse to see as many of you as possible.

Loves,
(and happy turkey day)

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I find it hilarious (and interesting) that english people have a different way of laughing than americans. Oh, yes, it makes sense, but I’d love to see an analysis of how people laugh in different languages, and why it’s different – you know, different vowels stressed in the course of the language, whatever.

I was listening to a couple of english girls laugh, and it was so peculiar. (Stop worrying, Kim, I never noticed your laugh). I can’t believe I’m fascinated by this, how boring is that?

Reminds me of the flash site I saw a long time ago that had animals set up like that old pull-the-string-and-pick-an-animal, except they’d recorded kids from around the world making the sounds that the animals make to them.

For instance, the way the french bark like a dog is a lot like “uah! uah!” That always stuck with me.

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So work was major busy today – I’m working on a complete redesign of the corp. website – it’s kind of exciting, actually – it’d certainly pad the ol’ resume if it gets implemented. Anyway, I reached a point where the kicking and swearing of the secretary during her transcription was too much, so I whipped out the ol’ lappy (Athena, if you’ve forgotten her name) and plugged into some music while I worked.

I was ridiculously productive today, mostly because I have to be – weeks of work have to be done by Wednesday. *sigh* Just ask me if you’d like to see what I was working on – preliminary response from those who sat still on IM long enough for me to ping them is that it’s a big improvement.

So I head home, chatting with the Lucy and the Benjamin alternately, blah blah blah – I walk up the stairs, and I quietly hear a “DING!” I am… well, you could say intimately familiar with. At the moment, the only non-human sound dearer to my heart is the squelch of modem tones. I’ve got my key in the door, when a quiet voice says, “virus database is updated!”.

Yes. I somehow packed up my laptop without shutting her down.

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I want to put prints up on my walls. Also, I want to finally paint my accent color. Anyone up for helping out with that?

Also, Lucy, Ben and I are going to see Bond tomorrow evening, in Livonia. Anyone who wants to join us is welcome.

I got my car back from the shop – apparently they had used transmission fluid that was slightly too thick, which is what caused my problem getting into reverse in cold weather. problem solved!

I haven’t tagged any of my entries in at least 8 months. I should go back through’m. …. beh.

I miss my peeps.

And I miss my lucy.

Also, there’s a really cool blues-dixieland style singer who does an album called Strange Conversation, with tracks based on great classic poems. I’d like to give it a listen, if anyone’s got it. (I heard a bit on public radio.)

I should make a normal dinner instead of eating small iced oatmeal cookies and garlic bagel chips.

It’s really quiet in here. I’d like to find a great freeware music-ripping software that A) uses CDDB, B) is easy to rip songs in bulk, C) IS NOT ITUNES (gowan, shoo!), and D) isn’t crippled.

Why isn’t OGG supported in any video editing app? What a pain in the ass!

Is there a geek toy site out there that is as cool as thinkgeek but actually, y’know, actually updates with new product? I can’t buy, I just want to drool.

Speaking of drooling, I spent an inordinant amount of time looking at things related to Wii, including their first commercial. I’m smitten.

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If anyone is looking to break into web design, we have a position available for a web intern. Pays better than you think.

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Frigits!

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We all know a little bit about how chaos theory works – the weather is impossible to accurately predict because it is so complex that we cannot keep track of every variable.

Our predictions become worse over time because that missing variable has affected it’s surrounding elements, and over every second those elements do unpredicted things to their surrounds, until your perfect equation becomes an utter mess. Even overlooking a single molecule will, over a significant length of time, alter the outcome of weather prediction drastically.

The typical scenario is, “A butterfly flaps its wings in Vegas, and there is a hurricane in China.” It’s kind of bunk, because with billions of butterflies out there, constantly altering the speed and direction of air molecules, they’re -all- causing and cancelling these potential effects, all at once. Until you start considering what might be if you could look at two realities – one where the butterfly flapped, and one where it didn’t.

On to fiction and human evolution!

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